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<p><span>After Christopher Brennan’s 1897 post-Mallarmean experiment, the&nbsp;</span><em>Musicopoematographoscope,&nbsp;</em><span>a handwritten, part-parody, part-founding poem in the history of Australian inventive poetics, it is difficult to find sustained instances of avant-garde or neo-avant-garde poetry in Australia. But there is one figure from the postwar period that stands out as coming close to such a representative: Harry Hooton (1908–1961).&nbsp;<span>Hooton was a member of the anarchist Sydney PUSH movement, a leftist interlectual subculture that thrived from the ’40s to the ’70s and gathered loosely around the University of Sydney, and editor of the literary magazine&nbsp;<em>21st Century</em>.&nbsp;</span><span>Philosopher, poet, and raconteur, “unjustly neglected,” “forgotten,” “scorned by the literary establishment,” Hooton, who fashioned his own philosophy of “Anarcho-Technocracy” was&nbsp;</span><span>a “cult figure in Sydney’s libertarian circles,”&nbsp;</span><span>as the back cover of his 1961 collected poems&nbsp;</span><em>Poet of the 21st Century&nbsp;</em><span>put it. Harry Heseltine is similarly prophetic: “occasionally such a figure is suddenly seen to redefine himself at the center and to generate a whole new output of mainstream poetry.”</span></span></p>
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<p><strong>1. Harry Hooton (1908–1961)</strong></p>
<p>After Christopher Brennan’s 1897 post-Mallarmean experiment, the <em>Musicopoematographoscope,&nbsp;</em>a handwritten, part-parody, part-founding poem in the history of Australian inventive poetics, it is difficult to find sustained instances of avant-garde or neo-avant-garde poetry in Australia. But there is one figure from the postwar period that stands out as coming close to such a representative: Harry Hooton (1908–1961). </p>
<p><a href="http://jacket2.org/commentary/lives-experimental-poets-1to3" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Ania WalwiczAustralian experimental poetryHarry HootonJas H. Dukeneo-avant-gardeWed, 15 Mar 2017 17:22:26 +0000andycar15486 at http://jacket2.org